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Dates: during 2000-2009
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What is often remembered of Hart’s presidential campaign is a photograph of him on a yacht, named “Monkey Business,” with a young blonde named Donna Rice sitting on his lap...

Author: By William B. Higgins, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Former Presidential Hopeful Discusses Homeland Defense | 9/24/2002 | See Source »

...last week there was little indication that much had changed downrange. Young men with crew cuts still loiter in bars, fondling Filipina and Russian women, or paying for lap dances. And at least some of the bars still offer "VIP services." The bar owners deny that their dancers are tricked or forced into prostitution. Hyun Ju, Club Y's manager, is emphatic that "no woman has ever been mistreated at this club." She claims that "the owner treats the girls like family. He even takes the girls on holiday to the swimming pool." Kim Kyong Soo, president of the Korean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Base Instincts | 8/5/2002 | See Source »

...drink a beer with. "It's about companionship, it's not about sex," says a soldier who's heard about trafficking, while enjoying the rock 'n' roll music at the Sun Club. At Club Y, a soldier sits with his buddy nursing a beer as two Filipinas perform a lap dance for G.I.s at the table behind him. He thought prostitution was legal in Korea and has not heard about the trafficking, but says, "There's nothing I could do about it." At the pizza joint, the three sergeants don't have anything more to say, telling a reporter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Base Instincts | 8/5/2002 | See Source »

Issue four of "Eiland" (Bries; 28pp.; $13.95), by a pair of Dutch artists, Sefan J.H. van Dinther and Tobias Tycho Schalken, doesn't come at you like a comicbook. You push the contents out of an open-ended cover sleeve. Into your lap plops an eight-and-a-half-foot-long piece of shiny cardstock that has been folded back and forth, accordion-style. Each side of the sheet contains a story by one of the artists, which because of the folding, means the book has no front or back and the end of one turns over to the beginning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reading on the Edge | 7/23/2002 | See Source »

...have never been confirmed, and the Pakistanis believe al-Qaeda may have deliberately created the impression that bin Laden was present in order to camouflage his move to a safer location. ISI members believe bin Laden, in fact, moved from Tora Bora to Nazian, another remote town in the lap of the White Mountains near the Pakistan border, before disappearing altogether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Bin Laden Got Away | 7/17/2002 | See Source »

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